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JAMES H. ,PAITON, OF CHICAGO, ILLIN IS, XsSIGNOIt, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, To

OSNOCHEMICAL CO., or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

rnocnss or MAKING GLUE.

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.ments in Processes of Making Glue; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The material which I have invented and which I have termed'glue is capable of a number of uses and constitutes a binder for calcimine, an emulsifier for oils and water used in the manufacture of paint, and also maybe used in the sizing of fabrics, warps, yarns, sizing of paper, wall paper and bill posters, and also used as a size for neoplastic walls. This substance will stay sweet without fermenting for an indefinite period, and is sanitary, and is economical in that it does not turn sour and can be dissolved in'cold water.

The substance or glue, is made by acting upon flour of all kinds, such as wheat, cornor rye, and starch of all kinds, such as:

. Canna, potato, maranta-arrowroot, natalarrowroot, curcuma arrowroot.

group.)

Bean, pea, lentil. (Leguminous roup.)

Wheat, barley, rye, oat, acorn. Wheat group.)

Arum, (Sago group.)

Rice, buckwheat, oat, maize, dari, pepper. (Rice group.) 1

The above is made into glue by one of the following methods:

By treatment in an aqueous solution with either caustic soda, caustic potash, magnesium chlorid, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid,

(Potato zinc chlorid and heat, chlorin gas, or any other agent which will cause the gelatinization ofthe starch, in case of starches or Also in cases of starches treated with caustic soda or caustic potash, the excess of alkali must be neutralized to the extent of about 90 per-cent. In cases of sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid, the excess of acid must be neutralized.

The substance constituting my invention may be made in difi'erent ways by varying the formula therefor slightly in different respects, and for the purposes of illustra- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 17, 1916. Serial No. 115,467.

tacca-arrowroot, sago, tapioca.-

Patented Oct. 7, 1919.

tion, I have described in the following, two possible mixtures for the purpose.

Mixture N0. 1.

' Eighteen pounds of-fiour, and nine gallons of water are put into a mixer and thoroughly mixed with one another, after which two and, six-tenths pints of caustic sodasolution are added; the soda solution has a specific- 1 Mixture N0.

Nine pounds of starch (any k'nd of starch, preferably corn starch) are mix d with four and one-half gallons of water; one and-oneeighth pints of caustic soda solution of 1.9 specific gravity and two and one-fourth gallons more water are then added to the starch solution and all stirred until thoroughly mixed and allowed to stand approxi mately for twelve hours. The mixture is then" agitated and six pints of sulfuric acid added, the strength of which is one part of acid to four pints of water. After this is thoroughly intermixed, four and one-l1alf pints of resin size, mixed in two and onefourth gallons of water, are added, and the whole stirred until thoroughly incorporated.

The resin size is obtained by dissolving five pounds of resin and two and one-half pounds of borax and two pints of caustic soda solution of 1.4 specific gravity, in ten. and one-half pints of water. This is boiled until a solution is obtained, or, in other words, until the constituents are dissolved in the water.

I claim as my invention:

1. The process of making a glue consisting of mixing starch and water, adding thereto an alkali, thoroughly stirring the mixture, then neutralizing the excess of alkali, thereafter adding a resin size and porated.

2. The process of making a glue consisting of mixing starch and Water, adding thereto an alkali, thoroughly stirring the mixture, then neutralizing the excess of alkali, thereafter adding a resin size, first mixed With Water, and stirring the Whole until thoroughly incorporated.

'3. The process of making a glue consisting of mixing flour and water, and adding thereto an alkali and thorou hly stirring the -mixture, then adding suliunc acid to neutralize the excess of alkali, and thereafter adding a resin size, first mixed with water, and stirring the Whole until thoroughly incorporated.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JAMES H. PAITON. Witnesses:

CHARLES W. HILLS, J r., EARL M.-HARDINE. 

